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Relax and
experience the pleasures of country living in your own cozy cabin. Each
season offers spectacular beauty and an abundance of activities at on of
our
working family farm, nestled in the Ozark highlands.
Located 1 hour from St. Louis's Lambert
International Airport, you drive southwest thru beautiful country with
rolling hills where interesting stops might include wine country
vineyards, cave tours, or one of many antique shops.
It’s truly a setting for all seasons - meadows graced
with wildflowers in the spring, summer respites in the cool caves along
the towering Vilander bluffs, wooded hillsides splashed with autumn’s red,
orange and gold, and winter’s intimate stillness after a snowfall on the
country landscape. No matter what the season, the farm is a place for
peace and discovery, far away from the pressures of everyday life.
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2006 Rates include accommodations with breakfast and lunch, 3 days of riding (12 hrs). Each day covers different
territory "Across Missouri".
4 days/ 3 nights $550
Single: +$125
Cattle Drive: +$50 Extra night $185 |
Gratuities: 10 to 15% recommended
Tax: included
Open: All Year
Meeting: Bourbon
Airport: St.Louis
Transfer: Best to rent a car in St Louis
Tack:
Western
Horses:
Missouri Fox trotter, Quarter
Level: From novice to
advanced
Pace: All paces acc. to riding level
Note: There are several restaurants close by, but you should have a rental car.
You can add a cattle drive and/or a hay wagon ride during your stay.

Rich in
cowboy traditions and horsemanship, the RS Ranch is a 500 acre
working ranch. Surrounded by rivers, trails, and other nature,
there is a wealth of cowboy activities to choose from. Once you
are at the RS Ranch, we help you design what you'd like to do on
you cowboy getaway with us. We can plan trail riding, roping
lessons, horse-drawn hayride, sleigh rides in the winter, or
just watch some of the day to day horse work on the ranch. Roy
might be shoeing horses, harnessing a team, or Tanya might be
training a young colt. You might want to fish, hike, bird
watch, kayak or canoe on a local river, just go swimming and
float on your back for the day, do some photography or sit and
relax in a rocking chair on the big front porch. The RS Ranch
has several breeds of horses - from Quarter Horsesto the smooth
gaited Missouri Foxtrotters, that are sure footed to handle the
hilly rocky outlaws trails. The "Big Girls", Percheron draft
horses are used in day to day chores as well as pulling the
hayride wagon and sleighs.
As the sun starts to set in the west, the horses unsaddled and
turned out to night pasture, folks and the ranch dogs gather
around the chuck wagon and cowboy campfire for the evening. The
smells of cowboy cooking fills the air as you listen to local
Bluegrass musicians playing old west songs. You are welcome to
bring your guitar, banjo, or fiddle and join in. It's cowboy
life at its finest, eating ranch grub around the chuck wagon, a
blazing campfire, good cowboy coffee, story telling or
poetry, and roasted marshmallows at the end of a full day.
Accommodations:
Private rooms in the main ranch house or in a spacious 2 bedroom
log cabin (min 3)
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" When you think of
the Missouri Ozarks and trail-riding you should think of the Missouri Fox
Trotter. The Missouri Fox Trotting Horse was developed by the early Ozark
Mountain settlers to provide a smooth, quick, riding horse that was also
sure-footed enough to handle rocky, hilly terrain".
 






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